Sound Sunday is a weekly feature promoting free album downloads. This week, join me in exploring the world of ambient electronic music. Let me guide you into mesmerizing soundscapes of various flavors. Listen and relax as you dive into this edition of Sound Sunday.

Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free by entering 0 in the price field. That said, we strongly recommend you to donate a few dollars for music you enjoy!

We welcome you to submit your music, send suggestions with free albums you have discovered, or request genres we haven’t covered in a while. For all Sound Sunday related inquiries, please contact Tina [tina at makeuseof dot com].

From the album page: “Space Station is an combination of modern electronic / ambient / space and progressive music. The project started in 2006 by Bernard Lampreia, Portuguese based, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist guitarist, keyboardist, concentrating on electronic, ambient space music and progressive rock styles. Bernard Lampreia – has been a full time musician, composer, producer and writing music for Portuguese TV-commercials and interactive média. In 2007/2008 the music of Space station, airplays on Radioshows in Portugal, Germany, Denmark, Spain and United States.”

Make Mine Music – Vox Pop

From their Bandcamp profile: “Make Mine Music is a truly radical independent record label, owned and run by the artists themselves. Each artist pays for the manufacture and promotion of their own records and correspondingly receives 100% of any income generated by those releases.”

From his Homepage: “Northcape is the ongoing work of a self-taught British artist (currently living in Warwickshire, England), making instrumental, melodic electronic music that ranges between electronica, IDM and ambient. Inspired by environments, landscape and memory, Northcape avoids over-complexity and is aimed at expressing ideas in the most natural way possible, drawing strongly from personal experience.”

From their Facebook page: “The Makunouchi Bento, or traditional japanese lunchbox, is a highly lacquered wooden box divided into quadrants, each of which contains different delicacies. It is also one of the most familiar images of Japan’s domestic environment. Reading the box as both an object and a metaphor, Felix Petrescu (Waka X) and Valentin Toma (Qewza) founded this experimental / electronica project back in 2001.”

Sun – Red Mt.

Sun is the music project of John Doak. From his SoundCloud profile: “As well as producing his own music, John curates ‘Cuisine’ – a page dedicated to posting the best in ambient, drone, experimental and noise on Bandcamp. He lives in Bristol, England.”

From Bing Satellite’s homepage: “Bing Satellites is known in real life as Brin. (…) I have been experimenting with music for as long as I can remember. I bec[a]me a fan of Brian Eno as a teenager and that had a profound effect on me. (…) In the early 2000s, computers had evolved enough to make it possible for one person to make music relatively easily. With some software and the loan of a sequencer and synth from my brother, Bing Satellites began. The name came from the start of a song of mine (entitled ‘Bing Satellites’) which started with bleepy noises which sounded to me like satellite signals. Not a ping, it was softer, more like a bing.”

From his Facebook page: “Experimental layering of field recordings and ambient sounds is interwoven with light and sparkling acoustic guitar melodies. All in all, this results in a very organic sound structure. Great one for headphone listening, as many of Pan, EQ and other effects details are buried deep in the mix. ontemplative, meditative, sunny and peaceful – like a walk in the woods.”

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This is my first download of ambient music from Bandcamp. It is slightly repititious but will fit in snugly with my music tastes. Hope to expand my music library after listening to one or two other bands.

Actually, all of the albums above are free as far as I can see right now. However, it can happen anytime that an album goes from free to pay. This may be caused by several factors.

Bandcamp puts a limit on how many copies of an album can be downloaded for free. After that, the artist has to purchase more free downloads and meanwhile, users have to pay per album download. Sometimes, artists decide they no longer want to offer an album for free.

Tina has been writing about consumer technology for over a decade. She holds a Doctorate in Natural Sciences, a Diplom from Germany, and an MSc from Sweden. Her analytical background has helped her excel as a technology journalist at MakeUseOf, where she's now managing keyword research and operations.